Renegade Game Studios is running their Worldwide Play Days every Wednesday. You can tune in with them and watch some games and play along. You can even win prizes! This upcoming week, they'll be playing The Fox in the Forest. For details, read on.

From the website:

During the month of April, we invite you to join us for Worldwide Play Day to come together, play games, and win promos!

What is Worldwide Play Day?

Worldwide Play Day is an event we’ll be running on Wednesdays starting on April 1st. You can watch our stream in the Facebook event and join chat to be entered to win a promo pack, starting at NOON Pacific (3 PM Eastern)!

Additionally, we invite gamers to start playing the featured game of the week at the same time! As you play, we’ll post global effects on Twitter as well as in our event on Facebook every so often (about 5-10 minutes) that will affect your games and the games of everyone else playing along, including those on our stream! Watch along and/or play along and see how you all react to these global events in realtime!

If you broadcast your games using Facebook or Twitter, you’ll have a chance to earn promos for our games! Three lucky winners will be selected each week who use the hashtag #WorldwidePlayDay sharing a photo of their game! To share your games, you’ll need:

• A copy of The Fox in the Forest for April 8th

• A friend to play with

• The ability to follow along with the global effect posts and share images of your game

  (following @PlayRenegade on Twitter OR by joining the Facebook Event with your Facebook account.)

 

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As the DM/GM, you've gotta come up with every aspect of the game world the players will explore. That can be rough. Thankfully, there's pre-made settings that you can add to your own game for a quick and easy bit of world-building. In this case, we have Draharsis, a set of three islands that are filled with mysteries. You can find this setting book up on Kickstarter now.

From the campaign:

Draharsis is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use campaign setting consisting of 3 islands waiting to be explored. 

If you're looking for a 90 page campaign setting that describes every nook and cranny of the gaming world and leaves nothing to the imagination, then look somewhere else… but if you are a Gamemaster (new or experienced) looking for a resource to help serve as the backdrop of a new one-shot or campaign... then Welcome to Draharsis!

The campaign's more than 8x funded (being fair, they were asking for very little to begin with) with 18 days left to go.

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"Sometimes, ya gotta fight fire with fire." It's an old saying that means in some situations, the only way to win is to take on aspects of one's opponent. In this case, it's the mother of all demons that's taken on the form of a Lilarch. To win, one of the Lightbringers must become a demon, themselves. That's what's going on in the new Massive Darkness scenario that CMON's posted over on their website.

From the website:

All is lost. Lynith, the mother of all Demons,has taken on the body of a Lilarch. There is no hope... Unless... One of us turn ourselves into a Demon too?

This is a special scenario for Massive Darkness! Are you ready to make the ultimate sacrifice?

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All over the world, people are staying home. With not being able to head out to the shops, many gamers are having trouble with gaming as much as they like. Well, if you're a Team Yankee or Flames of War fan, Battlefront is here to help. They've got some new articles about staying hime and getting some games in, as well as new scenarios for you to check out.

From the announcement:

Stay Home and Play Flames Of War and WWIII Team Yankee

With everything that is going on at the moment, we asked Phil to come up with some ideas about how we could still get out out models and play some games..

He said;

With Covid-19 keeping us all at home, here’s some ideas on how we can still keep playing while we stay at home. I’ll start by addressing the most obvious difficulty: not having an opponent. I have several ideas on how to get around that! Most of these ideas are most definitely not my own, in fact some of them come from Donald Featherstone’s classic Solo Wargaming from way back in 1973. Others come from the many useful solo wargaming sites that you can find in a quick web search.

Click here to ready the full article; Stay at home and Play Flames Of War and WWIII Team Yankee…

We also challenged him to find a way to take the Flames Of War Starter Set and come up with some great little scenarios that you could solo play..

Normally, you’d expect to play Flames Of War with a real flesh-and-blood opponent. However, at the moment that option isn’t available to us. To help remedy this, I wrote some ideas on how to play a regular pickup game without an opponent, or devise your own scenarios to play against and AI opponents.

Click here to ready the full article; Solo Missions for Flames Of War…

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It's Friday again. Now that I think about it... the week kinda went by fast... At least for me. I'm sitting here thinking, "wasn't it Tuesday just a day or so ago?" Apparently not. Oh well. I'm ok with this. Hopefully your week has been alright and you've been able to stay safe out there. These are strange times, indeed. As for me, I'm here to bring you your regularly-scheduled party platter of bite-sized gaming stories.

Today we have: New 2D Print Models Available From One Page Rules, Bushi Prime Strikers Available From Puppets War, Norse Foundry Running Dice of Crits Kickstarter, and Mystic Mariner and Mystic Noble Dice Available From Kraken Dice.

New 2D Print Models Available From One Page Rules

Hi everyone,

Today we’ve got a really cool announcement regarding 2D print models, as well as an update on last month’s 3D print models and the Soul-Snatcher Cults army.

2D Print Models are Live!

Here at OPR we always strive to provide our players with more bang for their buck, which is why we’re happy to announce that from now on we’ll be providing new 2D print models every month. :D

Bushi Prime Strikers Available From Puppets War

Five models of Bushi Prime Strikers (45 parts).

Norse Foundry Running Dice of Crits Kickstarter

Since the dawn of gaming history, there have been those blessed by the dice gods. Others, unfortunately seem to be cursed to roll low, relegating their D20’s to their dice jails, under couches, into walls, and down toilets.

For too long, GM’s have had too many hot streaks, leading the frustrated deaths of many an adventurer. Inversely, we all have that friend in our gaming group that cannot seem to roll above a 10. Today, we are here to take a stand.

Bamboozle your friends and confound your rivals with Critical Dice by Norse Foundry. These 20mm metal dice are comprised of Norse’s zinc alloy and have a critical result on each face, one die features 20’s on each face, and the other all 1’s.

Gift Critical Dice to your entire gaming group, it’s the crit that keeps on critting!

Mystic Mariner and Mystic Noble Dice Available From Kraken Dice

The night stars and the moon have basked him in the wisdom of the ages. The ocean winds whisper their secrets in his ear.

Are we only 1/4 of the way through the year? Sure. Does that make it a little early for a year-in-review post? Eh, the folks over at Privateer Press don't really think so. Let's face it, it's kinda felt like it's been a full year already. As such, they've got a bit of an update about how things have gone and a little about where they might lead.

From the post:

Maybe we’re deep enough into 2020 for a full year-in-review, but dammit, this is my Insider, so I can do what I want.…

I started out the year by completing the sculpts of Archnumen Aurora, the Negation Angels, and Prefect Hypatia for Convergence of Cyriss. I was especially happy to have worked on these projects, as it allowed me to revisit the first WARMACHINE model I ever sculpted: Aurora. But I’d also been seeing all of the new art for Warcaster: Neo-Mechanika, and my mind was distracted—I really wanted to work on that project. 

As the company was ramping up the efforts on the new game and my current projects were winding down, it was finally time to discuss Warcaster sculpts. One of the things I enjoy most about working for and with Matt Wilson is that we’re both artists and are close enough in age that we have similar influences, which makes it easier for us to have shorthand discussions about upcoming projects. So, when I asked Warcaster Factions, Matt described Aeternus Continuum, finishing his description with, “You know—your kind of people.”

Warcaster was already at full speed when I started in on Aeternus Continuum, so I was behind before I even started (now you know why they release in wave 2!). The next two months were all about high-pressure deadlines to get the models done, but I knew I was not alone—everyone working on Warcaster, from sculptors to developers to 2d artists, were putting in the extra time to bring the game together.

One of the units available through Kickstarter, the Vassal Witch Hunters squad, wasn’t done quite in time to show the renders during the Kickstarter campaign itself. They’re very similar in style to the first Vassal Reavers squad, so this seems like a good place to share a sneak peek of how they’ll likely look when finished.

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Games Workshop, and by extension Forge World, have hit pause on production during the COVID-19 outbreak in order to help flatten the curve. But while you can't get any actual minis from them, you can still get digital content. They've got the White Dwarf archives up online for you to download, as well as audiobooks, and Warhammer Adventure items for the young'ins.

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Illionois Nazis. I hate Illinois Nazis. I'm not a fan of Nazis of any type, to be honest, especially those still left over from WWII that run evil organizations that are looking to infiltrate into every aspect of life and take over as some sort of multi-headed mythical creature. Oh look, it's Red Skull. What timing. Let's go punch him in the face. That's what you'll be doing in The Rise of Red Skull, a new expansion for Marvel Champions coming soon from Fantasy Flight.

From the post:

The nefarious organization known as Hydra has insidiously spread its tentacles through all of society, corrupting governments and subverting justice around the world. Their dark plots may begin with an unexpected attack on Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., but you can be certain that there are tendrils running deep below the surface. Your battle against evil is only beginning…

Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce The Rise of Red Skull, the first campaign expansion for Marvel Champions: The Card Game!

The Rise of Red Skull boasts a massive infusion of new content for your games of Marvel Champions. Hawkeye and Spider-Woman join your roster of heroes with fully pre-built and ready-to-play player decks stuffed with new cards. Whether you’re playing these new heroes or relying on old favorites, you can test their mettle against five brand-new villains: Crossbones, Absorbing Man, Taskmaster, Zola, and Red Skull. Each of these five scenarios offers a unique challenge, and while you can simply choose a villain to battle, this campaign expansion lives up to its name with the introduction of campaign mode to Marvel Champions: The Card Game.

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Here we are at the start of a new month. This is going to be a rough one for a lot of us. But being informed, even if it's not the brightest of news, is still better than just being in the dark. That's why, though it's not the happiest of news, Paizo's posted an April Update so you can know what they've got going on, as well as their convention schedule for the next several months (hey, some of them aren't cancelled. And many are moving to online).

From the post:

While the past month brought lots of confusion and chaos to our lives, we’re grateful to our communities for providing some safe harbor in the storm. A huge shout out to the entire venture-officer team and the local GM crews who supported the FLGS until they closed and then moved the games online. For those of you that haven’t joined us in virtual, consider this an open invitation to do so! Come play, socialize, and stay strong!

Also, a huge thank you from our team to the community for their patience and understanding. As we scattered to the winds and socially distanced ourselves, we found everything taking more time and more energy. From getting remote offices set up to putting together this month’s scenario releases, it all was a bit wonky. We thank our community for coming together, helping each other, and supporting our hobby. You are awesome!

Unfortunately, not all of our community avoided their encounter or rolled a success on their fortitude save. We have several community members, and adjacent community members, who are dealing with the disease. Please keep them in your thoughts! If you have a bit of cash to spare, consider purchasing the Humble Conquer Covid-19 Bundle, whose entire proceeds go to fighting Covid-19 and rescuing lives.

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While a lot of us are working from home or on a... unscheduled break from work, we're spending a lot of time bored. Well, one thing that I know peps a lot of people up is a good Kickstarter campaign. CMON's next is just around the corner. They've announced an April 14th launch date for Ankh: Gods of Egypt. Mark your calendars (or Steve or Laura your calenders, if you prefer).

From the announcement:

A Note to All Our Backers, Supporters and Fans,

We are thrilled to finally be launching Ankh: Gods of Egypt. It’s a game years in the making, and we’ve pulled out all the stops to make this campaign our best and most exciting yet. We also want to acknowledge what a difficult period of time it is for many people around the world. Choosing to postpone or not was a tough decision, but based on all the factors, including the many messages we received on social media, we decided to move forward with the campaign as planned. We don’t know when the world will go back to normal but debuting a game so many have been waiting for so long feels like the correct path forward. To that end, we will be keeping the pledge manager open as long after the campaign as possible to accommodate those who would like extra time to finalize their pledges.

Also know that we will continue to release as much exciting, time-filling content as we can through our website and social media. So far, the reaction to new Zombicide and Massive Darkness scenarios, the new Beta Game Modes for A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniature Game (which you can fin here under Public Playtest Files), and the full XenoShyft game in Print and Play has been amazing, and our goal is to keep you entertained during this difficult time.

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